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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
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    • As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
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      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
  • Christian Nationalism
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
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      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
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      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Robert P. Jones

Robert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award. He is also the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones writes weekly at robertpjones.substack.com, a newsletter for those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and healing from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Religious LibertyJanuary 24, 2022

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

In Florida, a state senate committee wants to make it illegal to cause discomfort to…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Racial JusticeJanuary 4, 2022

Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

On Jan. 20, 2021, President Joe Biden became the first commander in chief to use…

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New Books, RD10QJune 2, 2010

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

“Taking aim” at both the Religious Right and the New Atheists, a new book aims to make progressive politics safe for the religious, and religion safe for progressive politics.

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Politics/LawJanuary 14, 2010

Dispatches from the Beltway: The New Public Face of Religion

By Robert P. Jones

The surprising results of the latest Pew survey on religion in America.

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Politics/Law, ScienceJuly 3, 2009

Dispatches From the Beltway: Horton Hears Progressive Religion

By Robert P. Jones

With the success of We Believe Ohio et al., progressive religious voices are breaking through…

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Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke
CultureJuly 3, 2009

Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke

By Robert P. Jones

Hozan Alan Senauke talks about socially engaged Buddhism, weapons of mass redemption, and “just sitting down” as a radical act.

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<i>Podcast</i>: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”
Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

Podcast: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”

By Robert P. Jones

The Faith Line, as Eboo describes it, does not separate people of different religions but separates religious pluralists on the one hand and religious totalitarians on the other.

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Politics/Law, ScienceJuly 3, 2009

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype…

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

Survey Says: Mainline Clergy Lean Liberal

By Robert P. Jones

Conservative clergy and pundits have worked overtime to create the impression that there’s only one “Christian” position on the issues. A new survey proves otherwise.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 18, 2009

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

“Come Let Us Reason Together,” which focused on building bridges between white evangelicals and progressives, unleashed strong criticism from the religious left, much of which challenged the initiative’s definition of “progressive.” Robert P. Jones, an adviser to CLURT, responds.

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